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The Tales of Beedle the Bard
av Rowling, J.K.
The Tales of Beedle the Bard is the first new book from J. K. Rowling since the publication of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The Tales of Beedle the Bard played a crucial role in assisting Harry, aided by his friends Ron and Hermione, to finally defeat Lord Voldemort. Fans will be thrilled to have this opportunity to read the tales in full.
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Gomorrah
av Saviano, Roberto
Roberto Saviano's groundbreaking and utterly compelling book is a major international bestseller, and has to date sold 750,000 copies in Italy alone. Since publishing his searing expose of their criminal activities, the author has received so many death threats from the Camorra that he has been assigned police protection.
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Stratton's War
av Wilson, Laura
Belönad med The Ellis Peters Historical Award 2008
"Gradually Laura Wilson's atmospheric book unites the two main strands of her subtle plot. Her characters are complex and totally believable, as is their struggle to cope with wartime London, with its constant bombing, increasing bureaucracy, and the breakdown of family life. The plot builds into a complex picture of a time in which no one is immune from the insidious effects of war." |
The White Tiger
av Adiga, Aravind
Vinnare av The Man Booker Prize 2008
Balram Halwai is the White Tiger - the smartest boy in his village. His family is too poor for him to afford for him to finish school and he has to work in a teashop, breaking coals and wiping tables. But Balram gets his break when a rich man hires him as a chauffeur, and takes him to live in Delhi. The city is a revelation. |
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The Girl who played with Fire
av Larsson, Stieg
Lisbeth Salander is a wanted woman. Two Millennium journalists about to expose the truth about the sex trade in Sweden are brutally murdered, and Salander's prints are on the weapon. Her history of unpredictable and vengeful behaviour makes her an official danger to society - but no-one can find her anywhere.
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Quantum of Solace
av Fleming, Ian/Winder, Simon
To celebrate the release of the new James Bond film, "Quantum of Solace", all Ian Fleming's short stories are being published in one volume for the first time. From a "View to a Kill", "For Your Eyes Only", "Quantum of Solace", "Risico The Hildebrand", "Rarity Octopussy", "The Living Daylights", "The Property of a Lady", and "007 in New York".
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Testimony
av Shreve, Anita
At a New England boarding school, a sex scandal is about to break. Even more shocking than the sexual acts themselves is the fact that they were caught on videotape. A Pandora's box of revelations, the tape triggers a chorus of voice -- those of the men, women, teenagers, and parents involved in the scandal -- that details the ways in which lives can be derailed or destroyed in one foolish moment.
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A Most Wanted Man
av Le Carre, John
A half-starved young Russian man in a long black overcoat is smuggled into Hamburg at dead of night. He has an improbable amount of cash secreted in a purse round his neck. He is a devout Muslim. Or is he? He says his name is Issa. Annabel, an idealistic young German civil rights lawyer, determines to save Issa from deportation.
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In the Dark
av Billingham, Mark
A rainy night in south London. A gun is fired into a car which swerves on to the pavement, killing the person standing at a bus stop. It seems that a chilling gang initiation has cost an innocent victim their life. But the reality is far more sinister...One life is wiped out and three more are changed forever.
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Breaking Dawn
av Meyer, Stephenie |
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No time for goodbye
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Brisingr
av Paolini, Christopher |
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The Shack
av Young, William P.
Mackenzie Allen Philips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his great sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend.
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Naming Of The Dead
av Rankin, Ian |
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Monster
av Hall, Allan |
Madonna
av O'Brien, Lucy
Lucy O'Brien's extensive and well-researched biography will look at Madonna the artist, giving detailed analysis of her music, complete with revealing interviews with musicians and producers. It will focus on her cultural impact and the way she uses cinema, photography, visual art, theatre and dance in her work.
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The Audacity of Hope
av Obama, Barack |
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Solaris Book Of New Science Fiction
av Baxter, Stephen/Hamilton, Peter F./Asher, Neal |
Solaris Book Of New Science Fiction Vol. 2
av Mann, George |
Tides Of Darkness
av Rosenberg, Aaron |
Summoner
av Martin, Gail Z. |
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The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
av Wroblewski, David
A contemporary retelling of Hamlet of stark and striking brilliance set on a farm in remote northern Wisconsin. On a farm in remote northern Wisconsin the mute and brilliant Edgar Sawtelle leads an idyllic life with his parents Gar and Trudy. But when his beloved father mysteriously dies, Edgar blames himself, if only because his muteness left him unable to summon help.
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Addition
av Jordan, Toni
Richard & Judy's Summer Read!
Grace Lisa Vandenburg counts. The steps she takes every morning to the local cafe . The number of poppy seeds on her orange cake, which dictates the number of bites she'll take to eat it. Grace counts everything, because that way there are no unpleasant surprises. Seamus Joseph O'Reilly thinks she might be better off without the counting. |
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Change of heart
av Picoult, Jodi
From the author of Nineteen Minutes. Freelance carpenter Shay Bourne was sentenced to death for killing a little girl, Elizabeth Nealon, and her cop stepfather. Eleven years after the murders, Elizabeth's sister, Claire, needs a heart transplant, and Shay volunteers, which complicates the state's execution plans.
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World According To Bertie
av Mccall Smith, Alexander |
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Sleeping Doll
av Deaver, Jeffery |
Book of the Dead
av Cornwell, Patricia |
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Last Light
av Scarrow, Alex
After several years of research into an issue that affects us all, Alex Scarrow has written a chilling thriller that depicts in a harrowingly convincing way just how fragile our society really is, and how we are only a hair's breadth away from its collapse. It begins on a very normal Monday morning.
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Sepulchre
av Mosse, Kate |
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Careless in Red
av George, Elizabeth
It is barely three months since the murder of his wife and Thomas Lynley takes to the South-West Coast Path in Cornwall, determined to walk its length in an attempt to distract himself from his loss. On the forty-third day of this walk, he sees a cliff climber fall to his death - a death apparently witnessed by a surfer in a nearby cove.
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Compulsion
av Kellerman, Jonathan
LAPD detective Milo Sturgis and psychologist Alex Delaware are called to the scene of a bizarre 'crime'. A stolen car has been anonymously returned to its owner, undamaged and unblemished - except for a tiny, solitary bloodstain. This minuscule clue is enough to set the pair on a hunt for a multiple killer, from the well-heeled centre of LA society to its desperate edges.
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Girl Of His Dreams
av Leon, Donna
As Commissario Guido Brunetti watches his mother buried, he takes some solace in the cloud dappled sky, the tops of the Venetian cypress trees, moving gently in the spring breezes. As ever, his wife Paola is at his side. But then a ten-year-old gypsy girl, Ariana, is found dead in the canal, in possession of a man's watch and wedding ring.
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Hold tight
av Coben, Harlan
Tia and Mike Baye never imagined they'd become the type of overprotective parents who spy on their kids. But their sixteen-year-old son Adam has been unusually distant lately, and after the suicide of his classmate Spencer Hill - the latest in a string of issues at school - they can't help but worry. They install a sophisticated spy program on Adam's computer...
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Swingers
av Lister, Ashley |
The Bottom Billion
av Collier, Paul |
Viking Manifesto
av Strid, Steve/Klaus, Andreas |
Jamie's Ministry Of Food
av Oliver, Jamie |
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